gally

Example Sentences

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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gally had seuen pieces of brasse in her prowe, small and great, she had thirty bankes or oares on either side, and at euery banke or oare seuen men to rowe.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard

He feared that the noise would gally the quarry; a whale has remarkable hearing in certain circumstances.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

When the auxiliaries gwîl and gally are used to form a passive, it is sometimes the auxiliary that takes the passive form. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

Lord zur! an why d'ye bring en here     To gally âll tha people?

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James